The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-08-04


rs 8Soesm N neligious Beliefs-The New
4s 1Gneary Law and IL Enscts- bitter Feel
Ex ~ Against Germany Interesting Gossip.
IS Especial Cosrsspondsncsl
x PANS, July 12.-The legislators at
( II Palais Bourbon seem to be Just
now inaugurating most comprehen-
slve leveling process In regard to
~ religion professed by the bulk of
~ French people, as, indeed, to
teligions in general. There has been q
hot discussion in the Chamber of Depu-
~ concerning new military law which
imposes three years service in the army
upon al Frenchmen who have attained
{ tAeif twentieth year, with qualifications,
y however, as to time and conditions of
gefvice in favor of medical students and
pupils at the Polytechnic and normal
schools and others similarly situated.
This new law, it will be seen, differs but
httle from the one which has been in
\ force since 1872, save that, although con-
tanning 1870 articles, 1t makes no mention
OF smother special class of citizens-the
\ seminarists or ecclesiastical students and
members of the priesthood generally, a.
( well ~ schoolmasters, all of whom have
hitherto been exempt from conscription.
ThiB important omission was at once
1etscted, raising, as might be imagined,
vigorous protests from the Clerical Right
In The chamber, and scathing condemna-
don In the Catholic royalist press. When
the measure came on for discussion Mon
! seigneur Treppel, Bishop of Anglers,
mounted the tribune and eloquently ad-
vocated an amendment in favor Of the
I citizens left out in the cold. The canons
Of the church q reference which pro-
z voked much merriment amongst the
.Rads,als) forbid priest to carry arms
th@ lhed blood, except in self-defense. 1t
tAeAd been said that Pope Julius and
eCafdinal Richelieu had commanded
armies, the one as temporal sovereign,
the other ~ minister Of war, but neither
ever used arms or shed any mans blood
The priests duty is to preach peace,
charity and the forgiveness of sins, to be
prayerful and kindly, and therefore his
ministry is utterly at variance with the
profession of arms. In Austria, Ger
many, Spain and Portugal the clergy are
exempt; in Switzerland they simply act
= army chaplains, while during the
OWL war in America they were never
subjected to military service. Moreover,
The seminarists were not of much i'm.
portance In the army, numbering only
some 800 annually, whilst financial and
similar considerations prevented the en-.
rolltnent Of $4,000, 10000 or 10000 ordi-
nary citizens every year. Even Napoleon
himself, though often sorely in need Of
soldiers, never sought to impress the
ssminarists. The clergy were ready to
pay their debt to their country, but they
would pay it voluntarily. because for
them, Is indeed for all the Catholics of
France, therA was but one motto: Dieu
st Ratris.
This speech ELECTED . reply from M.
Hanotaux, followed by q powerful ha.
Z rangue on the clerical side, by NJ. de Ia
Naftiniere, deputy for the Manche, who
/. pleaded exemption for schoolmasters
and missionaries. Lastly, NJ. Rouvier,
president of the council, representing the
government, insisted that compulsory
service must be compulsory for all.
There was no sectarian animus ON the
part Of the government, no desire to
persecute or unwarrantably interfere
with any particular vocation or class of
persons. As . result the Martiniere
emsndment was defeated by 3S4 votes to
IN, whilst another by N. 1aurenson, in
favor Of placing theological students in
ln war time, also fell to the
ground. 6eminarists and teachers
win therefore perform military ser.
vice precisely % other citizens.
The anti-0erman agitation marches"
with vlgor In the ranks Of the people,
led by Radical organs like the Francs and
zatrensi1sans, but the calmer and more
eet1ous portion Of the press uniformly
coadenns noisy manifestations like the
ql4 held the other evening at the Cirque
dH5yet, when d. 6ansbHuf, president,
I'D ~ Henri Deloncle, delegate Of the
E11giotic League, and n. Paul Deroulede
0e15vsfsd passionate harangues, glorify.
1ng = martyn Kochlin- Clandon and
Oka1lee Blech, the two Alsatians re.
cently arrested BY the Germans as spies.
Ths high Court Of Leipsic, which sen-
tenced fhem to two years imprisonment
n fortress, ostensibly because they be-
loaged TO the league, was denounced in
~ strongest terms, and the meeting dis.
peEeed singing the popular song:
DpuAnssr \ tie man who can do It.
Ali sA-hi a-a-A-hl
Three moro Alsatians are now being
lid q Lsipsic ON the more serious charge
g furnishing plane Of Notifications to the
YSpQch government, whilst several
yo1the have been punished more or less
soyers1y for uttering "seditious cries."
sueh - "Vive IL France" &C., and
yosAg girl fnds that German justice will
~ permit her 70 wear . tn-colored
apson On German territory. These ORA.
conian acts of the conqueror are all
daily treasured up in the French memory
aGainst the GLORIOUS day of revenge
x11ea nay dawn q any moment accord
Z - - N appearances. In the canton Of
QG1rna1 (naut Rhin), ont Of 10 con-
ncElpts who shouldshave answered to
- roll for service in the German army,
tgsmty-0ns have ned and enlisted IN
~ rSsnch foreign legion.
10ay mention here that fifteen years
~ hatIod and distrust Of the sons Of the
3 feeheS1apd. many Of whom come into